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VIII CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY CONGRESS
The Challenges of Anthropology in Central America: Identities, Cultural Diversity and Political Processes
VIII CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY CONGRESS
The Challenges of Anthropology in Central America:
Identities, Cultural Diversity and Political Processes
SECOND CALL
DEDICATED TO THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
ANNE CHAPMAN
PLACE:
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA OF HONDURAS
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT
AND
UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
FEBRURY 21-25 2011
EMAILS:
Zulema Ewens (Coordinator)
zulemaewens@unah.edu.hn
Silvia González (Assistant)
viiicongresoantropologia@yahoo.com
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Presentation
The Central American Anthropology Network and The Organizing Committee invite members of the
academic community to participate in the VIII Central American Anthropology Congress to be held in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras in February 2011.
The theme chosen for the VIII Congress is The Challenges of Anthropology in Central America: Identities,
Cultural Diversity and Political Processes.
There have been 7 Congresses by the Central American Anthropology Network. The themes of the different
Congresses show how participation has intensified and how the subjects treated have been diversified.
This Congress has the purpose of analyzing the main themes in Central American anthropology in the
different areas of Anthropological research: biological, linguistic anthropology, socio - cultural, archaeology
and ethnohistory.
The Congress is dedicated to Dr. Anne Chapman, pioneer of ethnographic studies in Honduras.
For this purpose, we ask scholars to submit proposals to one of the following thematic areas:
1. Central American Anthropology
 The state of anthropology in Central America
 Academic programs in anthropology
 Anthropological Fieldwork
 “Our friends, our colleagues”
2. Identity and its transformation
 Multiculturalism
 Interculturality
 Citizenship and identity
 Hibridity
 Globalization
 Migration and frontier societies
3. Social Anthropology
 Memory, critic thought and decolonization
 Spirituality, Religion and Symbolism
 Transformation Processes of State Institutions
 Governability, citizen security and social violence
4. Economic Anthropology and Sustainable Human Development
 Economy and the evolution of society.
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Industrialism and labor markets
Demography and rural poverty
Urban development, marginality, and migration
Resettlements, social displacements and infrastructure
5. Gender Studies
 Gender violence and patriarchy
 Gender and industrialism
 Identity and the construction of gender
 The feminization of poverty
 Masculinity in the postmodern context
6. Archaeology
 Archeology and the construction of identity
 Time construction and Archeology
 Archaeological research and conservation
 Archaeology and Landscape
7. Anthropology and Human Rights
 Public Policies
 Political Processes, Participation and Democracy
 Social, Cultural and Economic rights
 Indigenous Peoples
8. Political Anthropology
 Government and local development
 Collective action and The State
 Democracy and political processes
 Urban imaginaries and social participation
9. Ecological Anthropology
 Global warming and its effect in Central American Societies
 Ethnography of natural disasters
 Tourism, development and the environment
 Indigenous Peoples and the environment
10. Anthropology and Cultural Heritage
 Cultural heritage and tourism
 Cultural heritage and cultural industries
 Cultural heritage and education
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11. Anthropology and education
 Anthropology in academic plans
 Education and culture
 Information, technology and education
 Identity construction through the national system of education
 Education and gender
12. Linguistic Anthropology
 Native languages
 Intercultural education
 Second language and acculturation
 Linguistic differences between the Spanish of Central America
13. Anthropology of health
 Health interculturality
 Socio cultural context of illness
 Applied anthropology and health
 Forensic anthropology and human rights
 Genetics, anthropology and historical research
14. Ethnohistory
 New theories and methods in ethnohistory
 Reconstruction of the past and ethnohistory
 Micro-history and local history
 Oral history.
Within the framework of these thematic areas, we invite colleagues to submit their proposals according to
the guidelines.
Organizing Committee
Magister
Julieta Castellanos
Chancellor
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Magister
Lea Azucena Cruz
Chancellor
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán
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Dr. Zulema Ewens
Coordinator of the VIII Central American Congress of Anthropology
Department de Anthropology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
Dr. Gloria Lara
Department of Social Sciences
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán
Archaeologist Carmen Julia Fajardo
Department de Anthropology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Magister Silvia González
Department de Anthropology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Dr. Lázaro Flores
Department Social Sciences
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán
INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS (CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY NETWORK)
Dr. Allan Moore
National Institute of Culture and History, Belize
Dr. Álvaro Brizuela Absalón
Universidad Veracruzana
Mtra. Ana Silvia Ortiz Gómez
Institute of Historical Studies
Anthropological and archaeological
Universidad de El Salvador
Dr. Andrés Fábregas Puig
Rector
Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas,
México
Dr. Andrés Medina Hernández
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas,
UNAM, México
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VIII CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY CONGRESS
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Mtro. Antonio Higuera Bonfil
Licenciatura en Antropología
Departamento de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de Quintana Roo
Mtro. Aníbal Pastor Núñez
Universidad de Panamá
Mtro. Carlos Lara Martínez
Universidad Nacional de El Salvador
Licda. Carmen Julia Fajardo
Departamento de Antropología,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Mtra. Cecilia Alba Villalobos
Licenciatura en Antropología,
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas
Mtro. Carlos Gutiérrez Alfonzo
Centro de Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social,
Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas,
México
Dr. Esteban Krotz
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México
Dr. Gabriel Ascencio Franco
Programa de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias
sobre Mesoamérica y
el Sureste-IIA-UNAM, México
Dra. Georgina Hernández Rivas
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Dra. Gladys Casimir
Facultad de Antropología
Universidad Veracruzana
Dra. Gloria Lara Pinto
Directora de Cooperación Externa,
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Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Mtra. Guadalupe Rodríguez Galván
Instituto de Estudios Indígenas
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas,
México
Mtro. Héctor Moreno Corrales
Universidad de Panamá
Mtro. Hugo Rafael López Mazariegos
Maestría en Antropología Social
Centro Universitario de Occidente,
Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala
Dr. José Alejos García
Centro de Estudios Mayas,
UNAM, México
Dr. José Luis Escalona Victoria
Centro de Investigaciones y
Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social – Sureste, México
Mtro. José Luis Ramos Ramírez
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México
Licda. Lesbia Ortiz Martínez
Carrera de Antropología, Escuela de Historia,
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Dra. Luz Graciela Joly Adames
Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí
Mtra. Maritza Andino Picado
Departamento de Antropología
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua
(UNAN-Managua)
Dra. Maria del Carmen Araya Jiménez
Maestría de Antropología, Universidad de Costa Rica.
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M.Ed. Nigel Encalada
National Institute of Culture and History, Belice
Dr. Pedro Jiménez Lara
Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales,
Universidad Veracruzana
Dr. Ramón Rivas
Escuela de Antropología,
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Dr. Rolando Quesada Sancho
Departamento de Antropología,
Universidad de Costa Rica
Dra. Zulema Ewens Mejía
Departamento de Antropología,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Dra. Silvia Salgado González
Posgrado en Antropología, Universidad de Costa Rica
Mtra. Concepción Clará de Guevara
Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado
MA. Andrés Álvarez Castañeda
Director Departamento de Antropología y Sociología
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
ORGANIZATIVE STRUCTURE
PRESIDENTS:
Magister
Julieta Castellanos
Chancellor
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Magister
Lea Azucena Cruz
Chancellor
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán
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VIII CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY CONGRESS
The Challenges of Anthropology in Central America: Identities, Cultural Diversity and Political Processes
COORDINATOR:
Dra. Zulema Ewens
Departamento de Antropología
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
ORGANIZING COMITEE:
Mtra. Carmen Julia Fajardo
Departamento de Antropología
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
ACADEMIC COMISSION:
Dra. Zulema Ewens (Coordinator)
Dra. Gloria Lara
Mtra. Carmen Julia Fajardo
Mtra. Silvia González Carías
Dra. Eva Lilia Martínez
Dr. Lázaro Flores
LOGISTIC:
Mtra. Carmen Julia Fajardo (Coordinator)
Mtra. Silvia González Carías
Dra. Eva Lilia Martínez
Mtro. Oscar Rápalo
Mtro. Rubén Darío Paz
Rafael Molina
Bertilio Amaya
DISTRIBUTION:
Dra. Gloria Lara (Coordinator)
Mtra. Silvia González Carías
Mtro. Rubén Darío Paz
Mtra. Carmen Julia Fajardo (Coordinator)
Dra. Eva Lilia Martínez
Allan Martínez
Cesar González
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OFFICIAL PROGRAM: To be published in November 2010
CONFERENCES: to be defined.
SUBMISSION OF SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS:
PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES: The last version of symposia proposals must be sent with a note of
agreement for publishing in CDs.
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Acceptance letters and notifications for those who submit symposia proposals will be sent by e-mail.
Dates and Deadlines
May 2010
Call for symposia opens
August 30, 2010
Deadline for online symposia submissions
October 15 2010
Deadline for online submission of papers
November 15, 2010
February 21, 2011
Publication of official program
Regular registration closes
Deadline for participants´ registration
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